About Miracle Bodywork

My Philosophy

Ideally, bodywork is an art with the practitioner characterizing and evolving their practice with their unique presence, quality of touch, way of sensing / intuiting, personal practices, philosophy and understanding of the body.

Any bodywork is intuitive, experimental, relying on natural instinct and behavior first. If people pay too much attention to theory, they soon start following the theory instead of the body; they give shiatsu from the brain only; and both givers and receivers suffer. ~ Wataru Ohashi

In my practice I am inspired by an unmet need I witness daily: the need to be heard, seen and accepted for who we are. This need is rarely met in most cultures. It follows naturally that most of us have also not learned true self-compassion, which requires the capacity to compassionately be with or listen to our feelings and sensations.

Listening, through all my senses, is the ground of my work. My ultimate desire is for you to be on a path of discovering who you are so that you can live the life you most desire.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

What is Miracle Bodywork?

Miracle Bodywork is named after my given name, Milagros, which is the Spanish word for "miracles". Miracle Bodywork then is my unique creation, developed through my life's work - creative, emotional and spiritual - in both my personal and professional life. Miracle Bodywork seamlessly integrates powerful somatic modalities with Shiatsu to create a profoundly effective form of therapy.

Awareness of sensations, an understanding of the body as conscious or possessing its own intelligence, and as being of Nature are at the heart both of shiatsu and somatic practices. The key elements of Miracle Bodywork are:

These elements create a deep sense of safety, support and connectedness. In these conditions the body's inherent healing process is awakened and the bodymind naturally re-organizes to a state of greater alignment - physically, energetically and emotionally.

Just like you can thirst for water, you can thirst for touch. It is a comfort to be met confidently, deeply, firmly, gently, responsively. Mindful touch and movement grounds people and allows them to discover tensions that they may have held for so long that they are no longer even aware of them. When you are touched, you wake up to the part of your body that is being touched. ~ Bessel Van der Kolk

As a blend of shiatsu and somatic practices, Miracle Bodywork alleviates a wide variety of conditions of imbalance and illness of the body. The most common conditions that people present with are: